Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina revealed she will be running for president in the upcoming 2024 elections. Read to know more.
Former UN ambassador announces presidential run
Former governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley announced she is running for the 2024 presidential elections. In her video, she sketches her biography and attacks president Biden and the democrats. While she did not say anything about Trump directly, she referred that she may be the only woman from the Republicans. “You should know this about me, I don’t put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels,” she stated.
On Wednesday, she is expected to formally announce her presidential campaign in Charleston. This makes her the first major leader to challenge Trump for the 2024 elections. She is also the first member of his cabinet to do so. Haley was his U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She has repeatedly bragged that she never “lost a race”. While she has supported Trump in the past, she has also criticized him.
More about Nikki Haley
Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants was born Nimrata Randhawa in Bamberg, South Carolina. She became the state’s first Asian American and female governor in 2010 upon her election. She won the reelection in 2014. Her signing the bill ordering the removal of the Confederate flag from the statehouse was a notable act. “It’s time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds,” she said in a conference following the killing of nine black worshipers by a white supremacist.
In 2016, she responded to former President Barack Obama’s State of the Union on immigration. “We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries,” stated Haley. In the same year, she was also named one of Time’s 100 most influential people. During her tenure as Trump’s U.N. ambassador, she announced sanctions against Russia. She also announced US was pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council. However, she stressed that this was not a retreat from human rights commitments.